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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThis grant advances SNC\u2019s goal of expanding access-for-all throughout the Sierra-Cascade,\u201d said SNC Executive Officer Angela Avery. \u201cThe Tahoe Forest Gateway is a beautiful property along Interstate 80 and these funds will help the 40 Acre Conservation League restore forest health and wildfire resilience as they develop a culturally relevant, accommodating, and welcoming place for the public to enjoy everything the area has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the help of earlier grants from the SNC and the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB), the 40 Acre Conservation League was able to purchase the land\u2014called Tahoe Forest Gateway\u2014in early 2024. As the only Black-led land conservancy in California, the 40 Acre Conservation League has a dual mission of conserving and restoring natural lands and developing inclusive and welcoming access for recreational and educational opportunities in nature.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur vision aligns with quite a few state, local, and county strategic plans, and more specifically with the Sierra Nevada Conservancy\u2019s,\u201d said Jade Stevens, president of the 40 Acre Conservation League. \u201cThat is emphasizing protecting and preserving the area but also enhancing the public use and enjoyment of the land, while also helping to increase access to disadvantaged and underrepresented communities that want to have more space and more public access opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n
This specific grant from the SNC will pay for fuels-reduction treatment on 189 acres, complementing 374 acres currently being treated under a grant from the WCB. The project will reduce overgrown stand density, reduce brush and ladder fuels, improve existing tree health and species structure, replant native species, and improve wildlife habitat. By reducing fuels on the property, it will help protect the region, which includes roughly 60 nearby homes, Interstate 80, adjacent Tahoe National Forest land, and the communities of Blue Canyon and Nyack, from potential damaging wildfire.<\/p>\n
\u201cProviding forest resiliency and wildfire prevention funding achieves the dual goals of mitigating wildfire risk in one of the most wildfire threatened regions in the state and empowering a diverse-led organization with the ability to fulfill a broader mission of increasing access and equity in the outdoors,\u201d wrote Assemblymember, 11th District, Lori Wilson, in support of this award. \u201cThis represents a \u2018win-win\u2019 opportunity that aligns with the efforts of a broad consortium of legislators to diversify the outdoors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once the forest-health work is done, the 40 Acre Conservation League plans to invest more into the property to add recreational and educational amenities, which will most likely include a nature center, camping sites, hiking and mountain biking trails, and water amenities to complement a scenic 30-acre lake onsite.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to meet the communities where they are,\u201d added Stevens. \u201cWhat that means is creating experiences that are not only safe and welcoming but culturally relevant and accommodating. We will look at ways for us to create those experiences that make people feel more comfortable to enjoy the outdoors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lake Tahoe, CA…Lake Putt, just off Interstate 80, is a part of the 40 Acre Conservation League\u2019s 650-acre Tahoe Forest Gateway property near Emigrant Gap. At the Sierra Nevada Conservancy\u2019s (SNC) quarterly Board meeting held March 6, the Board awarded a grant of $2,299,993 to the 40 Acre Conservation League to complete forest health work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unnamed-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188997,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188995\/revisions\/188997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}